
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.Ramana Maharshi
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.Ramana Maharshi

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.Swami Vivekananda

Life should be great rather than long.B.R. Ambedkar

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.Gautama Buddha

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.Swami Vivekananda

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.Jawaharlal Nehru

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.Confucius

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.Mencius

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.José Rizal

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.J.K. Rowling

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.Victor Hugo

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.Plato

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.Seneca

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.Franz Kafka

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.Nelson Mandela

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.Wole Soyinka

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.Martin Luther King Jr.

Silence is a source of great strength.Lao Tzu

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.Martin Luther King Jr.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.Niccolò Machiavelli

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.Che Guevara

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.Jack Ma

The greatest hero is the one who serves his country and his people.Jin Yong

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.Federico García Lorca

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.Epictetus

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society.B.R. Ambedkar

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.Anatole France

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Cicero

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example.Nazim Hikmet
Great talent finds happiness in execution.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.Seneca
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.Anatole France
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.William Shakespeare
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.Willa Cather
In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.Gautama Buddha
All the great performers I have worked with are fuelled by a personal dream.John Eliot
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.Napoleon Hill
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.Napoleon Hill
Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.Thomas Jefferson
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.Isaac Asimov
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.Lao Tzu
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can.Sydney Smith
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.Honore de Balzac
Today, give a stranger a smile without waiting for it may be the joy they need to have a great day.Byron Pulsifer
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.Lao Tzu
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.Charles Lamb
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Socrates
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.Benjamin Disraeli
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.Joan Didion
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.Pearl Buck
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Socrates
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.Lao Tzu
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.Benjamin Franklin
The greatest antidote to insecurity and the sense of fear is compassion — it brings one back to the basis of one's inner strengthDalai Lama
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you…William James
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Washington
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.Joe Paterno
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.Chanakya
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.Demosthenes
The price of greatness is responsibility.Winston Churchill
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Seneca
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.Orison Marden
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.Robert Kennedy
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.Pema Chodron
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.Elbert Hubbard
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.John Dewey
All great achievements require time.Maya Angelou
Great acts are made up of small deeds.Lao Tzu
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.Eriksson
To be great is to be misunderstood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.Michelangelo
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.Albert Einstein
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Lacordaire
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.Carl Jung
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.Oscar Wilde
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great…David Rockefeller
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.Mother Teresa
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to…Harriet Tubman
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.Mahatma Gandhi
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.Charles R. Swindoll
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.Zadok Rabinowitz
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.Alexis Carrel
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert Hubbard
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.Thomas Fuller
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.Ella Wilcox
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.Lazarus Long
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.Jane Goodall
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the…David Attenborough
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.David Attenborough
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.Queen Victoria
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.Catherine the Great
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.Steve Jobs
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.Bill Gates
I believe in giving more than 100 percent on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field.M. S. Dhoni
Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.Dwayne Johnson
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go…Tom Cruise
Custom is the great guide of human life.David Hume
A scientific institution has to be grown with great care like a tree — its growth in terms of quality and achievement can only be accelerated to a…Homi Bhabha
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.Vikram Sarabhai

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.Mahatma Gandhi

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.Swami Vivekananda

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.Martin Buber

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Confucius

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great thing is created suddenly.Epictetus

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.Blaise Pascal

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.Wayne Dyer

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.Rabindranath Tagore

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty.Winston Churchill

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.Rabindranath Tagore

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.Oscar Wilde

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty.Winston Churchill

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.Blaise Pascal

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.Mother Teresa

There is no great genius without a touch of madness.Aristotle

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Don't be so humble — you are not that great.Golda Meir

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.Martin Buber

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.Mary Shelley